The only flaw is that some times it can be hard to find a spesific topic even with knowing a few keywords.
Totally agree. But I fixed this by mapping a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search to a Chrome bookmark keyword. Now I just type "w search-terms" and it nearly always teleports me to the right wikipedia page. Like so:
(Posted to Pastebin because I can't get the Slashdot message composer to print this correctly.)
Sadly. Damn IE slowing down even non-IE users!
Even more sadly, this is not news. IE has been effectively sabotaging the non-IE community for years. The need to specifically code for IE6 and IE7 due to their crappy compliance with web standards has swallowed immense amounts of global developer effort, which could otherwise have been invested in improving the interwebs for everyone.
Just die already.
That thing was way ahead of its time. But Gates and Balmer killed it. and now Allard is off doing something else...
Yes, it was way ahead of its time. Or in other words, it never existed. It was just a concept. All the PR fluff you saw was just Microsoft's way of saying "we got nothing, but please don't buy an iPad".
Much like Apple's "accidental leaks" of a future 7" miniPad because they're sincerely afraid of the Nexus 7.
Your little brain freeze notwithstanding, that was an exemplary summary of a complex report. The mea culpa is also appreciated.
For those who want to read a little more, there's a very good article over at Ars Technica, which in turn links to the full English report from the Japanese parliamentary inquiry as well as an IEEE Spectrum account of the immediate aftermath.
Electric blankets are nonsense. You are a 100W radiator. If you're cold, you don't need to apply heat, you need insulation.
Alternatively, you could sleep with someone to double the wattage. I didn't mention this option in my first post because I assumed most Slashdot readers would find this alternative prohibitively expensive.
Just like in the winter you can save a ton on your heating bills if you get an electric blanket. One for the couch and one for the bed. The heat is applied directly to the skin and you're warmer.
Electric blankets are nonsense. You are a 100W radiator. If you're cold, you don't need to apply heat, you need insulation. Go to IKEA (Swedish company, they know how to deal with cold) and get a thicker blanket. A good blanket will have you and your bed warm within 5 minutes of getting in bed.
Still don't believe me? There are lots of sleeping bags on the market for sleeping outdoors in temperatures as low as -40F (= -40C).
[the Higgs field]
I'm not a physicist, so please correct me if I misunderstood. Are you saying that this field surrounds us and penetrates us, and that it binds the galaxy together?
(Score:6, Awesome)
Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO?
Another question I've been mulling over lately is: will Kim Kardashian become less private now that she's dating Kanye West?
Considering Sarkozy got only 1% less of the vote than Hollande in the first round, it's far too early to call it. All the folks that voted for other candidates will pick 1 of the 2 in the next round, and considering the massive amount of votes that went to Le Pen...we might very well be seeing more of Sarkozy.
Maybe, but according to exit polls in round 1, the 18% who voted for Le Pen are only leaning 48/31 for Sarkozy over Hollande, while the 11% who voted for Mélenchon are leaning 83/6 for Hollande over Sarkozy. The poll shows Hollande leading by 9 points, 54.5% vs 45.5%.
Who modded this clown up? Almost every statement he makes is plain wrong.
I know my experience with meeting Greenpace activists in
Toronto in the 1980's -- all excited by Fuel Cell Technology
could not comprehend that the Hydrogen Economy relied
on having abundant Nuclear Energy. They were not the
brightest lot on the block.
The activists were right, you were wrong. The hydrogen economy doesn't require nuclear. Renewables would do equally well. Electrolyzers aren't very expensive per kilowatt and can run on intermittent electricity. Hydrogen is often pushed as a possible way of solving the whole intermittency issue for solar and wind power.
They also did not seem to understand that Wind Turbines
are great bird whackers and kill more birds per year than
lit up skyscrappers in Toronto.
I don't know about Toronto but here are the stats for Denmark, which gets 25% of its electricity from wind power. They have about 30,000 annual bird deaths from wind turbines, 1 million from cars, 2 million from window collisions, and 5 million from cats.
the fabrication of solar
cells required extremely toxic chemicals such as Selinium
and also required large tracts of land
Yes, some types of solar cells use toxic chemicals, but so do lots of other industries. As long as they get recycled there's no huge problem with this. But other solar cell types only use silicon, which is 100% harmless. Land requirements are large compared to nuclear, but tiny compared to bioenergy. Solar cells on just a few percent of the world's deserts could supply all the energy we need, but they could also be distributed over other "dead" surfaces like rooftops, parking lots, roadsides, etc.
From these people I met, if they were representative, I would
be surprised that they could calculate any energy efficiencies.
I'm an energy system researcher with no connection to Greenpeace, but the research reports they produce are very good. Did you hear about the recent IPCC "scandal" where some highlighted scenarios originated from a Greenpeace study? That wasn't because the IPCC is partisan, but that at least some parts of Greenpeace do impressive work that gets cited in academic studies.
Like I said, they were not the brightest lot on the block. LoL
... naw, too easy.
Project Iceworm - America's secret cold war plan to build a network of underground missile bases under the Greenland ice cap
Now I know.
Scroll down for English version.
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
